PHYSIOLOGICAL TIT-BITS.
Till' average weight of an adult man" i* UOlbs {>oz. average weight of a skeleton is about 141b*, Tlie average weight of the brain of a man is 3i/,lbs: of a woman 21bs Uozs _ The average weight of ail Englishman » L.Wbs; of a Frenchman, 13(511)3: of a Ilel-rian, 1401bs. The average number of teeth in 32 A man breathes about 20 times' a minute, or 1200 in an hour. The average of the pulse in infancy is r_o per minute 1 , in manhood SO, nt sixlv .vuars 00. The pulse of fnmalcH h more frequent than that of males. One thousand ounces of blood pass thvmitrh the kidnevs in an hour 17-1.000,1)01) holes or cells are in the lungs, which would cover a surface HO times greater than the human body. 2.">00 square inches may be estimated as the surface of an ordinary man's body _ Kneli pore Is about a quarter of an I"' " in'length. There arc about 7,000,000 pores in an ordinarv-sized Ulan Xineiv-eight degrees is the average ' temperature of the human body. " 1 The pressure of the atmosphero heinc i 1-llbs to the square ineli, the human bodv 1 sustains a. weight of 2n,2321b5, about 13 1 tons.
Tlio nvorngc duration of life in towns is 38 years, in ±kq SQuntrj gg ggam.,^
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 27 July 1907, Page 3
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